Keep up-to-date

We have a variety of ways to help you keep up-to-date in your areas of interest, clinical and non-clinical.

Bulletins

​Bulletins are monthly email updates of relevant recent publications. They are available on the following topics:

• breast surgery
• ​critical care
  
• falls
  
• ​health management (daily)

Updates

Updates are only produced twice a year and provide a summary of the evidence across broader subject areas:

• audiology
• coronary care
• dermatology
• dietetics
• infection control
• occupational therapy
• ophthalmology
• physiotherapy
• speech & language therapy

Sign up for bulletins and updates

KnowledgeShare is our targeted current awareness service. We’ll let you know when we find high-impact publications in your area, including guidelines, policy and high-level research evidence. Alerts are emailed out every fortnight. Your KnowledgeShare profile can be created to be as broad or specific as you need, and can be updated if your interests change. For example, you could receive all alerts on obstetrics or limit to only receive items related to gestational diabetes. KnowledgeShare contains summarised evidence; you will not be inundated with primary research articles.

Register for KnowledgeShare

Twitter 

Set up a Twitter profile and ‘follow’ organisations and individuals with similar interests. Each time they send a ‘tweet’ you will see it on your profile. It is useful for general professional and personal interests. 

Follow the Library on Twitter and keep up-to-date with news from the library and relevant health news stories.
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Journal database alerts

Create and run an evidence search in one of the databases (e.g. Medline, Cinahl, etc). When you save the search you can create an alert. You will then receive automatic updates to the search results at regular intervals. For complex clinical or professional interests this is a good way to keep your updates very specific.
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Blog

Follow the Library Blog and keep up-to-date with news from the library and relevant health stories.

Bulletins from other NHS Libraries in the North West

• Cardiovascular
• Child Health
• Child Mental Health
• Dementia
• Diabetes type 2
• Education​
• End of Life Care

• ​Ophthalmology: Eyes on the Evidence
• ​Orthopaedics
• ​Pre-hospital emergency services
• Sepsis
• Sleep
• Stroke

Policy Briefings

Summaries of recent key policy documents, on one side of A4, produced by the JET Library at Leighton Hospital.

Policy Briefings

Library & Knowledge Service
2nd Floor, New Alderley House
Macclesfield District General Hospital
Victoria Road
Macclesfield
​SK10 3BL

Tel: 01625 661362

Email: ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net

Library & Knowledge Service
​Here to help you make a difference

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